~I"M STILL THANKFUL~

Good Morning....I hope all of you guys had a Great Thanksgiving....Mine does not start until tomorrow...as my daughters and family are coming up for the whole weekend.....YAHOO!! ( picture me doing cartwheels here and Happy dance).....As I said its so hard to all get together on the day of...so we always have a family weekend after the Holiday....Works for me any day I can have my girls here is a day to be thankful for... I spend the day at my granddaughter Candace's house...Oh can that young girl cook...YUM....Their were only 3 of us for the day...another plus for me I could wear my sweats ha ha!!....Oh Yes right in the middle of getting dinner ready Candace says "Grandma lets put up my tree" lol!! So out to the shed we go to get boxes and boxes of Christmas stuff...Good grief that girl only been married 3 years and she got more Christmas stuff that I collected in 50 years....And she got an 8 ft. tree that weights like a zillion pounds with fiber lights and just lights....I kid you not this tree should have it own room and zip code...And every year it get a new color?? Oh Yes can't have the same color ornaments as last year..What would people say....So in these zillion boxes we brought in half the stuff she could not use as it was not the right color...(picture me scratching head at this point) This years color are all silver, black and white....Oh the Oakland Raiders would love this tree ha ha!! So here we are putting this zillion pounds tree together making bows, hanging ornaments, Candace going behind me because I hung 2 of the same ornaments by each other ha ha!! Then its needed a new tree topper after all last years was a big Gold snow flake...So I start working with the glue gun and Glitter glue sticks to match...I mean how cute can this girl get...Matching glitter glue sticks....(another head scratching moment here) She had these silver stick thingys and I made a tree topper in silver, black for her...Now these stick thingys are also covered in glitter, so by the time I got done with this tree topper her whole house was full of glitter...I mean it looks like a Disco ha ha!! Now her poor Hubby was on call for the day...so off he goes on his call ( Lucky guy) gone 5 hours....wonderful smells coming from his kitchen when he left....and walked back into this house that is torn up from the floor up with Christmas stuff and glitter even in the corn chips ha ha!! Dinner been turned off hours ago...after all you can't do Thanksgiving in the middle of Christmas.....So it was late by the time we eat and I wasn't even hungry by that time as I been eating Glitter chips most of the day ha ha!! I had a GREAT Thanksgiving with Candace and Braden...got home late took off my DISCO sweats and this is how I feel today !! Now this girl was going at 1am to Black Friday and wanted to know if I wanted to go with her!!! I think all that glitter fried her brain cells...

May all of you have a great weekend on your side of the mountain...As for me its going to take a month to get all this glitter off my face lol !!

~I'M THANKFUL~

GOOD MORNING, WELCOME TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ....... Press '1' for English. Press '2' to disconnect until you learn to speak English

And remember only two defining forces have ever Offered to die for you,

Jesus Christ

And the American Soldier.

One died for your soul,

The other for your freedom.

Standing proud in the front is My Grandson Jacob at Ft. Hood, Texas. I'm Thankful for you....Grandma blowing you kisses baby boy....

As Thanksgiving is this week, I think we all take the time to think about what we have to be thankful for....

I'm always thankful for my Family....I wished we could all be together...but each of my daughters now have their own children and grand children, I'm Thankful to God for allowing me to survivor cancer so I could see that life does do a full circle...Life is a BEAUTIFUL place to be....

I'm Thankful that each of my Daughters have wonderful husbands and children and Grand children.....

I'm Thankful for my home that gives me shelter, When so many don't have home's anymore...

I'm Thankful I can open my cupboard and have food...when so many don't....

I'm Thankful to Len who came into my life after losing my Wally, and who looked beyond my years and wrinkles but looked into my heart... When so many are alone...

I'm Thankful for Candace my Grand Daughter who gave up important 2 years of her life to live with me after Wally died...I'm Thankful for the wonderful young man Branden that she married and loves her to death....

I'm Thankful for the Doctors at Dallas Children's Hospital that Saved Baby Kyra's life...

I'm Thankful for all my Blogging friend that have taken the time to pray with me this year, to just come by and say Hi !! You really don't know how Thankful I truly am for this....

I'm so THANKFUL to all our Service men and women who give me this freedom .....To have this life that I'm so Thankful for....

I'm Thankful that I live in the United States of America.....

But the most Important one I'm THANKFUL for is GOD, who have made all of this possible for me and each of us....

As all of us bow our head's and give Thanks on Thanksgiving....Remember life is not about the material things, its about the IMPORTANT things we give Thanks for....

May all of you have a Blessed Thanksgiving on your side of the mountain....I will see all of you ( I hope) after Thanksgiving.....

~I need a 12 step program~

Hello !! My name is Gloria and I'm a Dishalis...Hi Gloria lol!!! Oh Yes!! your my friends so I know I can confess to all of you...ha ha!! I don't know when this happen to me at first it was just having lunch and shopping with the girls and I would just buy one little dish...you know just to remember our lunch date with....Then a tea room opened in town and I found myself checking out the tea cups and pots and thinking what harm could it do to have them to take home and maybe a dessert plate or two after all you need a few tea things just in case someone wants a cup of tea and a pretty plate to set out some cookie with right !!! Then me and my friends started going to the consignment stores you know just to look around and see what they had..... And I would have to buy just a few more....Now just for a rememberance.....

Then I started buy dish sets....

Oh and then the silver hit me and I figured what harm could a few pieces do after all it would look pretty with my dishes.....

I did walk away from these.....I patted myself on the back

Then I started looking at even bigger dishes....

Then I found myself going out looking at dishes myself.... I was no longer just a social dish buyer....I mean what harm could that do right...

I found myself loving to touch them to pick them up and turn them over to see who made them...checking out to see if they were oven proof, dish washer safe etc...I found myself at the grocery store trolling the dish aisle instead of buying food....I found myself hiding the dishes in my food cart under paper towels in case I ran into a friend at the store....

Oh I tried to look at other things when I went out shopping...I did... I swear it did...But I knew it was getting worse...As I was buying more dishes and hiding them in the truck of my car, in the closets, under the beds, under the drapes, Not telling my children about them......Lying to Len about them when he would find new dishes and I would tell him "Oh those old dishes I had them for years" I found myself late at night when he was in bed stalking Ebay looking for more dishes....

I found I was buying dishes for my daughters and grand daughter because no one wants to dish alone....But every time I would go out and see dishes my hands would start shaking and my heart would beat faster...I would tell myself " No Dishes before 5pm" You can be just a social dish person.....Then I seen these and girls I found myself slipping.....I told myself Control Gloria you can do this....After all it's the Holiday's and the first of the month Just breath and walk away "YOU CAN DO IT GLORIA" lol !! But then the dish devil started speaking to me again....Devil said come on Gloria do you really need to buy Christmas present for your daughters you did that for years and look at all that money you wasted on toys they just broke and how about all those Barbie dolls you bought Dawna when she was little and just chewed the feet off of them...so does she deserved a gift now at her age and after all her husband can buy her a gift....And Len does he need that cable bill paid for the month...he did just find with Rabbit ears on his TV before you met him...and the Electric company do they need your money this month ??? You have left over candles from last Christmas that will give you light....And at Thanksgiving you can just make the family Grilled cheese with turkey sandwiches....It almost the same and with the candles lites and on these pretty dishes they won't notice....its almost a Norman Rockwell Thanksgiving.....

Oh!! Yes the devil made me do it...Just look at these..

Each plate has a differ farm aninal on them....These are called Farm Toile

Got me a service for 8

I want to Thank my family for now understanding about the Christmas gifts you won't be getting now....What do you mean you want more than a lousy Christmas Card...And don't think I don't hear the whispers behind my back about an intervention and sending me to Betty Ford...and YOU still think I would buy you a Christmas present ??? I promise you I will get help the first of the year lol!!!

May all of you have a GREAT weekend on your side of the mountain....Now I need to check and see if I have enough dishes for Thanksgiving dinner ha ha!!

~Name Card Holders and Place Mats~

Hello Girls....I'm joining Leigh today for Thrifty Thursday....I thinks with our times being so hard right now we are all looking for thrifty gifts we can give and use....

Now I got some of these ornaments at the Dollar Tree....just love the colors of these and right away my old mind started spinning as to how I could make name card holders out of them...and what a great Christmas gift they would make and so easy...

You will need a Hot Glue pad for these....You see nothing sticks to these pads....

These also from the Dollar Tree came 6 in a package....

Got some table scatters also from Dollar Tree...they come in 3 differ kinds in each package....so you can just add however many you want on the little frames...This is a snowman one I did and used an silver pen to even add Len's initial on the snow man with...

Now here a box of old ornaments I got at Hospice for 50 cent..... I got 2 boxes of these enough to make 6 holders with

Now for these you need to take the wire hanger from one of them and put it in the other one...so now you have 2 wire hangers on 1 ornament... You now have a place to put your name card.....

Now add a big wad of hot glue on your glue pad....

Put your ornament on it... after its cooled then just peel it off the pad...this makes the ornament stand up straight....

Again I added some of those table scatters to name card and to the ornament so they match ha ha!!....Now I used Recipes cards I had to make the name cards with just cut them to the size I wanted....Now you can use fancy ornaments for these and not do the table scatters on them like I did..

Here's what they look like all done...Just think for less that 4 card holders you have have a gift that cost less than $ 5.00..... Now the blue and silver ones I just glued the cards right on them as the holder were just plastic so didn't have wire to work with...

Now I also found these foam snow flakes again at $$$ Tree and your suppose to hang them...But I thought how great these would be as place mats for my Christmas table...

Also very Little cost to make as a Christmas gift...Hey and like I said I'm all about being thrifty at Christmas...

I took my Glue glitter and out lined the snow flake to match the one place card holders I did....

Now here it is all done....If you did the place card holders and the snow flake place mats you have a special gift to give for under $9.00 and can still buy a beautiful large Christmas bag at Dollar tree and not spend more than a 10 dollar bill for the whole gift package of 4 name holders and 4 place mats....I sure hope I gave you a few things that you can make and also use as gift giving....After Thanksgiving I will show you the whole Dining Room table I did with all the stuff from the Dollar Tree....So when you see my Silver and Blue table post come up Please come by and take a look....

Many Blessings to each of you from my side of the Mountain today to yours...

~TOILE AND TASSELS~

Happy Tuesday Girls, Today I'm joining in with Tam at " The Gypsy's Corner"



At 3 or more Tuesday.... And Cheri at " Its so very Cheri " For her I made my own tassels party...

First I would like to show you my Toile....Now I never had toile of any kind in my house....But have seen it all over Bloggerville....For 3 or more.... I thought I would show you the Toile I now have....

I found this wonderful Blue/white table runner at my favorite thrift store Hospice about a month ago....And of course I have a Blue/ white kitchen so at $3.00 it SCREAMED my name ha ha!!

Now the Lamp shade was an old one I had....And I do made lamp shades and I found 2 place mats also at Hospice for only $2.00 so I took apart my old shade and redid it in toile from the place mats I got...Not bad for a $ 2.oo make over....
See it sorta matches the table runner don't you think....Light on...

Light off....

This sweet Toile plate also Hospice 50 cent....

Salt and Peppers shakers I also got from Hospice awhile back and just put on the Toile plate...Added one of my Cloches and a Blue ribbon....

Now the Toile pillows I got from our consignment shop so I just put them on the kitchen chairs with all my new toile look....These I paid $7.00 for the pair

See and they match the Salt shaker in the Cloche's

Now many of you know that follow my silly blog I just started making Tassels....If you would like to see the how to....Please click here....

Now this Blue/white one I just make for my new lamp shade....

These sweet little bears I just found last week at Dollar tree...so of course right away I'm thinking how cute these would be for Christmas tassels...I bought 3 differ styles of these...but have yet to make them all in to tassels yet...

This snow man one my grand daughter Candace just made this weekend...we had a Tassels making day....She just loves to create so we spend many hours when we can making things....

I had already made one of these a few weeks back....but this is the one Candace just did....Is it not darling...Love those goofy legs on these things...Also Dollar tree

I also shown you this one before that I made....But I needed to show you once again my Busty Girl one...Again I got the little bust from Dollar Tree...

Now these are the pull Tassels I made for the Victorian Lamp Shades I made....These are made with lamp shade fringe and cording and grim....I then add the Glass beads like the ones I use on the shades and some sweet little silk roses....

This one is a Key with the tassel and beads that I have in my Living Room hanging on one of my hour glasses....Now Please go by and see our Party Planners for today Tam and Cheri, Thanks Ladies for hostessing....Also Please check out my Tassel making post...These are so fun with a capital F to make and so easy....

Many Blessings today from my mountain to yours....